Motivational Quotes

Children

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

- Friedan, Betty

Best Quotes about Children

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

11.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

12.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

13.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

14.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

15.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

16.

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

17.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

18.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

19.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

20.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

24.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

25.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

26.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

27.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

28.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

29.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

31.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

32.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

33.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

34.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

39.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

41.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

42.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

43.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

44.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

45.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

46.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

48.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.